so i need to go to bed. i need to go to bed so i can get up at 6:30am (to which my gentleman replied 'no, c'mon, pick a real time, that's not even a real time to get up'; we are not morning people) so i can leave at 7:20am to pick up my running partner so we can be ready to half-marathon starting at 8:30am.
i ran 7 miles tonight, btw, so as to be ready to run another 13 in the morning. this is my first attempt at a 20 miler, and i decided to put 12 hours and a long nap in the middle. perhaps you say they will not let me do that on marathon day? but i will not listen to you at present. ... and tonight's run went really well -- it was probably the most effortless run i've had in ages. probably because it was also like 15 degrees cooler than the last four months. i focused very hard on keeping this form thing in check and not bollocksing up my left hamstring, and guys it's still working! i let myself run on feel for the first two miles, and after a slow warmup mile, my second was 8:45, and i thought whoa, nelly! let's not throw the next 18 miles under the bus... so i reeled it in, and ran most of it around 9:20-9:30 pace. felt really quite easy, and am slightly optimistic about tomorrow.
so now i'm just going to foam roll, lay out all my clothes and gear (i already ground the coffee so the gentleman doesn't get the wake-up-call shock of his life in the morning), and collapse.
first, though, i need to tell you about how nature has been getting all up in my running grill this week, and it's a little ridiculous. there are three items on this list, and one of them is kind of PG-13. just warning you. dad, it'll only be about two sentences. k, without further ado
1. on thursday morning i ran quite a hot and slightly hard 8 miles. the first few were in an arboretum that i didn't know lansing had. where'd it go getting a pretty and quite large arboretum and not telling anybody? anyway, i went and ran around its spring dirt paths, and at one point i emerged from the woods to cross a field... and it was full of wild turkeys! there were maybe 15 or 20 wild turkeys just chillin' in the morning sun, and we were equally surprised to find each other there. i think of them honked at me? do turkeys honk? i don't know, it made a big noise and i kept running. big birds just make me think of dinosaurs now that i know the fossil record situation, and that's a little creepy. and then thanksgiving, that's awkward. so yes: wild turkeys.
the other two incidents happened tonight.
2. it rained a few days ago? and now there are a ton of mosquitos in the area. AUGHGHG. hate. hatred. much hate. so i sprayed myself with a lot of bug spray tonight, because i was running in the half hour of sunlight and into dusk... but you know, i have my limits. i don't spray bug spray in my ears and stuff -- i smear a lot on, and it's gross, but i shower (mostly) when i get home, so that's ok -- but i don't coat every inch of my body. sometimes you believe in the power of preventive clothing, no? ... no. so: not to get too graphic, but tonight while i was running, a mosquito bit my vagina. you know what happens when you suddenly feel a mosquito bite you? instinctively? ... you slap where it bit you.
probably nobody saw me. let's just assume so. if you ever see a video on the internet, we're just going to pretend it wasn't me, ok?
3. ... a couple miles after the mosquito incident, i was getting into a groove, headed home over familiar terrain -- and i kind of ran into a moth. really, that's weird? a moth flew by and hit my knee? and wow that was a substantia... nope. it was a bat. i kneed a bat while running. what the fuck? that is not how nature is supposed to work, for a whole slew of reasons. meanwhile, the bat shook it off, and headed back out into night.
maybe you need to turn up that sonar a bit, bat.
i wasn't going that fast.
right! so, to bed. it's probably going to rain on us tomorrow morning, just to make everything interesting (by which i mean damp and unpleasant) but nevermind! the 20 mile weekend will not conquer me! i may even drink some beer!
more tomorrow night.
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